Sıdıka Avar

[3] In 1920s, she and her partner moved to Izmir where she found employed as a teacher at the local Jewish school[3] and the American College for Girls.

She was briefly assigned as an assistant director to the Tokat Girls Institute in 1942, but returned to Elazig in 1943 where she remained until her retiring in 1959.

[5] She was sort of idealistic in the Turkification of the Kurds, and developed strategies on how to achieve the demanded result in a cooperative manner.

[6] According to Zeynep Türkylmaz, Avar appealed to the necessity to win the hearts and minds of the Kurdish girls and make them love Turkishness.

[3] The fact that she decided to leave her own chid behind as she went to the east, was contrary to the Kemalist traditional family seen as the basics for a successful country.